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The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson
Age: 83 †
Born: 1743
Born: April 2
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
3Rd U.S. President
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The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
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I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing.
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I like to see the people awake and alert.
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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It is not the policy of the government in America to give aid to works of any kind. They let things take their natural course without help or impediment, which is generally the best policy.
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The doctrines of Jesus are simple and tend all to the happiness of man, that there is only one God and God is perfect. That God and man are one. That to love God with all your heart, and your neighbor as yourself, is the sum of religion. These are the great points on which I endeavor to reform and live my life.
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Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
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Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
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[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
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The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
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Let those flatter, who fear: it is not an American art. To give praise where it is not due, might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.
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Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author
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The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.
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Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.
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The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
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[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.
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The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.
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